Salem-News.com Articles written by Marianne Skolek

Conflicting Interests in Ohio Over OxyContin - Part 2

"Actions are visible -- though motives are secret." Samuel Johnson

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Last week I wrote about pharmacist turned attorney Danna Droz, with the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy.

Conflicting Interests in Ohio Over OxyContin

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!” - Leo Tolstoy

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Conducting a presentation on Ohio's Pill Mill Bill, Danna Droz with the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy states that she has no financial interest or conflict of interest in the context of the subject matter of this presentation.

However it appears that Ms. Droz has forgotten about an ethics investigation relating to her ties to the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma.

Prescription Drug Abuse Battle in Nassau County Turns Deadly, Reaches Epidemic Proportions

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." Benjamin Franklin

(SEAFORD, NY) - Nassau County, New York has sounded the alarm -- they are experiencing a prescription drug abuse problem and are "taking the lead" in the nation and are forming an allegiance.

This joint effort is with Nassau County's Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse Prevention Task Force, InfraGard (an FBI public/private partnership) as well as the Long Island Pharmacy Crimes Task Force to run a Pharmacist Security Summit.

No Boundaries for the Pro-Pill Big Pharma Mouthpieces

"As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out." Robert Shea, American Author (1909 - 1994)

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - The American Pain Foundation, the lobbying group for the pharmaceutical industry in marketing "the undertreatment of pain in America".

Can a Fatal Plane Crash Free the Schneider Pill Mill Team?

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King, Jr.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - An untimely plane crash recently killed key members of a team working on behalf of a convicted pill mill doctor and nurse team.

Now attorneys petition Appellate Court to toss out their convictions in the overdose deaths of 68 patients citing their trial lawyers were merely "mouthpieces" for Siobhan Reynolds, head of the Pain Relief Network who used their case to promote her own agenda.

Is Intelligence Compromised by Working with FDA on Safety Issues?

It's obvious that intellectual ability is a threat to the tools working for the pharmaceutical industry within the FDA.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - With regard to Darvon or Darvocet, confirmed cause of 2,000+ accidental deaths, Dr. Sidney Wolfe:

“It is an extremely dangerous drug, and it's just reckless for any company to be selling it, and it's reckless in the extreme for the FDA to allow this...”

Joan of Arc or Charlatan - Who will be the Judge?

Siobhan Reynolds, RIP - President of the Pain Relief Network (PRN).

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - On Christmas Eve at approximately 2:00 pm, a small airplane in which Siobhan Reynolds was a passenger crashed on approach to the runway.

At the controls was Kevin Byers, an attorney and reported fiance' of Reynolds. They were flying into Ohio where they lived on an 87 acre farm.

Christmas in Heaven

Merry Christmas and God bless every family who has lost a loved one due to the tsunami of prescription drugs.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - This poem was written by a 13 year old boy who died of a brain tumor that he had battled for four years. He died on December 14, 1997. He gave this to his mom before he died. His name was Ben.

The FDA`s `Protection` of the American Public

"Since 1962, people within the FDA itself and outside the agency have complained bitterly that FDA is unduly influenced by drug companies." Jonathan W. Emord, attorney successfully representing litigants against FDA

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Several years ago, the FDA pulled a dangerous drug off the market after only 5 months called Palladone -- marketed by Purdue Pharma.

Are Pill Mill Pharmacies replacing Family Pharmacies throughout the country?

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty -- and how few by deceit." Noel Coward

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - It is widely known that we are experiencing a prescription drug epidemic in every state in the country. This is being fueled by people wanting to feed their drug habits and doctor shopping or robbing pharmacies for their drugs of choice.